Bernard Warburton-Lee

Bernard Warburton-Lee (13 September 1895-10 April 1940) was a British Royal Navy captain during World War II. He was killed at the First Battle of Narvik in 1940.

Biography
Bernard Warburton-Lee was born in Wrexham, Wales on 13 September 1895, and he joined the Royal Navy in 1908. In 1936, as commander of HMS Witch, he evacuated British citizens from Spain during the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, and he was given command of the 2nd Destroyer Flotilla in 1939 at the start of World War II. In 1940, during the Norwegian Campaign, his flotilla fought against the German Kriegsmarine at the First Battle of Narvik, launching a successful attack on the German flotilla. However, he underestimated the German force's size, and, as the British returned to sea from Narvik Fjord, they were beset by five more German destroyers. Warburton-Lee was mortally wounded when a shell hit the bridge of his flagship, HMS Hardy, and he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.